I looked at the block in between Ohio and South Jefferson avenues back in November of 2017, and caught some of the same houses as we see today.

This is part of the Thomas Allen Western Addition from 1869, as well, so the houses along here would date to as early as the late 1870s, and it’s interesting to see how there was an expectation of density that did not continue in St. Louis west of South Jefferson.

None of these houses seem to appear on Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis from 1876, so they must have been built shortly after its publication.

The four family above is probably from the 1890s, but the rest of the Second Empire duplexes are probably from no later than the 1880s and some may be from the late 1870s.

It’s a fascinating block, and a window into what were once hundreds of other blocks destroyed by urban renewal elsewhere in the city.